Means for making up and piling pages of type.



H. H. HANCOCK. MEANS FOR MAKING UP AND FILING PAGES OF TYPE.- APPLIGATION FILED 0OT.29, 1912.

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APPLICATION FILED 00129, 1912.

Patented May 27, 1913.

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MEANS FOR MAKING UP AND FILING PAGES OF TYPE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 29, 1912. Serial No. 728,436.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HARRY H. HANoooK, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Swampscott, in the county of Essex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for Making Up and Piling Pages of Type, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to means for making up and piling pages of type, and one object of the invention is to provide means whereby pages-of type or engravings such as those on stone, metal, etc, may be held together in a pile or stack after the composition is completed and after the page is made up ready to be printed for a book, catalogue, etc.

As is well known, it is necessary in all printing shops where book and catalogue work is done to keep agreat deal of type standing in page forms. Take a thirtytwo page catalogue for instance. It is customary to bind the page of type around with a string for the purpose of holding the type together until the page is ready to be printed. There is an accumulation of a great number of pages of type in a shop depending more or less upon the amount of work done, and these accumulated pages of type take up considerable floor or bench space. Pages of type are piled or stacked to a greater or less height, but this height is very much restricted because under the method heretofore practised, one page of type after the other is placed upon a piece of cardboard and the whole weight of type or plates or blocks comes onto the face of the type, and a pile of more than adozen pages or so would be unsteady and therefore impracticable.

Under the present invention it is possible to pile or stack a great many pages of type in one pile. For example thirty-two pages of type can, under the present invention, be placed in one pile or stack, and practically seventy-five per cent. of the space now occupied for the storage of type pages can be saved.

Another object of the present invention is to provide means for protecting the type faces and engravings from dust and dirt which is always collecting in most of the printing establishments.

A further object of the invention is to provide two or more unit members for a pile or stack, which members are so constructed and adapted to each other that one may be placed on top of the other up to the desired height, and the said members will be interlocked or secured together.

A further object of the invention is to provide a unit member or plate for a pile or stack, which member or plate is so constructed as that the page of type may be readily slid onto the same with the least amount of handling and placed in a pile or stack.

A further object of the invention is to provide for a pile or stack of pages of type or engravings of more or less height, and any of which pages of type or engravings may be rendered easily accessible in the pile or stack by lifting that portion of the pile or stack which is above the page of type to which access is desired. In other words, any page of type is rendered easily and quickly accessible, whereas under the former method one page of type after the other has to be lifted in order to get access to a page of type in the lower part of the pile.

These being among the objects of the present invention, the same consists of certain features of construction and combinations of parts to be hereinafter described and then claimed with reference to the ac companying drawings showing suitable forms of the invention, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the preferred construction of unit member or plate; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, the rectangular figure of broken lines indicat, ing a page of type resting on said plate or Patented May 27, 1913.

member; Fig. 3 is an underside view, re-

duced here, of one end of the unit member or plate shown in Figs. 1 and 2; Fig. 4 is a section onthe line 4c4 Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is a transverse section which may be considered as taken on the line 55 Fig.2 but which shows a pile or stack of unit members or plates consisting of two, the pages of tvpe being indicated in broken lines; Fi 6 is a perspective view showing one of the unit members or plates and illustrating how it may be used to slide a page of type or a block onto it; Fig. 7 is a transverse section of another construction of unit member or plate; Fig. 8 is a plan view of a medi fication illustrating a unit member adapted for use as a printers galley and by which the composition may be eifectuated; Figs. 9 and 10 are respectively sections on the lines 9-9 and 10-10 of Fig. 8; and Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14 are views indicating dif ferent ways in which the sides of the unit members or plates may be bent to facilitate piling or stacking.

Referring to Figs. 1 to 6 inclusive, the unit member consists of a plate 11 of oblong rectangular shape and which is provided atopposite edges with bent up portions which comprise longitudinal corrugations or ribs 1212 which project above one surface of said plate 11, longitudinal side flanges 13-18 which are bent up from the outer portions of said corrugations or ribs 12 and extend away from the opposite surface of said plate, while at the outer edges of said flanges outwardly extending longitudinal lips or shoulders 1414 are provided. These lips 1l1t are transversely curved or troughed at substantially the same transverse curvature of the rlbs or corrugations 12-12. This is necessary because the corrugations or ribs 12-12 of another plate or unit member as shown in Fig. 5 are to be seated in the gutters or troughs of the lips or shoulders 14l4. On the surface of said plate 11, preferably on that surface from; which the ribs or corrugations 1212 protrude is a soft or yielding covering or facing 15 which is indicated in broken lines in Fig. 2. This facing or covering may consist of any suitable soft or yielding material such as felt, which is in the form of a sheet and which is glued or pasted or otherwise secured to the underside of the described unit member. This faclng or covering of soft material has an area approximately of that defined by the length of the longitudinal bent up portions 18-14; and the distance between the opposite bent up portions. Said unit member or plate is also preferably provided at each end with blades or extensions 1616, which serve the purpose of handles for lifting the plate and page of type thereon indicated by the rectangular broken view in Fig. 2, and which also serve as shoveling blades for the purpose of introducing a page of type or an engraving upon it in the manner as shown in Flg. 6.

Fig. 5 shows the manner of making use of the subject of the present invention, and in this figure only two unit members or plates are illustrated because it is apparent that any number may be piled one on top of the other in the same manner as shown in said figure. It will be seen that the lower unit member which supports a page of type or engraving also supports the unit member next above it, as the unit members for a given pile or stack are all of approximately the same dimensions. The ribs or corrugations 1212 of the second unit member or plate will be fitted and seated on the lips 14lt of the next lower unit member so that an engaging connection is provided. It will also be noted that the soft facing or covering on the bottom of the second unit member will be positioned between the bent up portions of the lower unit member. hen a page of type or engraving is placed in one of the unit members, the engraved surface or type faces will be presented upwardly and when a second unit member is placed on that, its soft facing or covering if it has one will come in contact with and protect said type faces or engraved surface; the same holds as to each unit member with its contained page of type which is placed on the stack or pile. Of course there may be different sizes of unit members for different sizes of pages of type if desired. It will be apparent by reference to the figures in crosssection that the bent up portions are constructed or formed to advantage, with a view to strength in particular. The side flanges 1313 at opposite edges of each unit member or plate converge toward each other so that the cross section of each bent up portion is approximately of Z shape. One advantage of these bent up flanges is that when a unit member supporting a page of type or an engraving is placed on top of another unit member or plate, the tendency is to hold or spread apart the bent up portions of the said next lower plate or unit member. This prevents the said lower unit member or plate from buckling or bending due to the weight of the page of type or engraving on it. Also by referring to Fig. 5 it will be seen that the proportions of the unit members for a given pile are such that the space between adjacent plates is somewhat higher than the type or engraving so that said plates are spaced apart a sufficient distance to absolutely avoid contact of the lower surface of the upper plate with the printing surface located thereunder. It is obvious therefore that a soft facing may or may not be used.

In Fig. 7 a modified form of the invention is shown, the unit member 17 being of sub st-antially the same cross-section as the ones before described, but the using position of the same is reversed, and the soft or yielding facing or covering 18 is glued or secured to that surface of the unit member from which the bent up portions project. In a pile of such unit members the page of type or engraving will not be positioned in the pocket or space of the unit member which supports it but in the pocket or space of the unit member which supports the next higher page of type or engraving.

In Figs. 8, 9 and 10 another modification is illustrated. In this form of the invention each unit member is particularly adapted for use as a printers galley to be used in composition. \Vith this end in view, the unit member 20 is preferably formed and constructed with three inclosing sides or walls 21 and 2222. The end wall 21 is preferably a plain vertical wall or side while the sides proper 22-22 are also arranged as vertical walls, but the said sides are connected with the sides of the unit member or plate 20 by means of doubled-over edge portions 23-28. These edge portions and the sides 22-22 are preferably bent up from the same piece of metal as the plate 20, and the edge portions 2323 are in the form of ribs which diverge from the side edges of the plate. The upper'edges of the side walls 22--22 are provided with longitudinal and outwardly projecting lips 24.-24;, so disposed that the lips of one unit member will be complementary to the ribs 23-23 of another member to be supported on it, in the same way as the unit members are supported in the form of the invention shown in Fig. 5. As in the preferred form of the invention, the underside of each unit member is provided with a soft facing or covering 25 and there is a blade or extension 20 at its open end. Unit members constructed as illustrated in Figs. 8, 9 and 10 will sup port and protect pages of type or engravings in substantially the same way as in any of the other forms of the invention. As stated, the construction shown in said figures adapts each unit member for use as a galley, and this is due to the fact that the unit member is provided with three inclosing side walls which extend at right angles to the plate 20 to facilitate making up and composition.

No particular description of the forms of bent up side portions of a unit member as illustrated in Figs. 11, 12, 13 and 14: is necessary as the said views speak for themselves. They simply show modifications in the manner of bending up the sides of each unit member, which is to constitute a unit of a given pile or stack. It will be noticed that each unit member has a pocket wit-h an openside so that said pocket may be termed an open-side pocket, that is to say at least one side of said pocket hasno wall.

It is obvious that the present invention is susceptible of other and still further modiflcations, but the forms of the invention disclosed are suflicient to illustrate the character and scope of the invention.

hat '1 claim as new is 1. A printers device of the class described,

comprising a plate provided on one side with side flanges for forming a pocket to receive a page of type, and on the other side with an attached soft or yielding facing, and shoulders or lips extending from the outer edge portions of said flanges.

2. A printers device of the class described, comprising a plate provided on one side with side flanges for forming a pocket to receive a page of type, and on the other side with an attached soft facing, and suitable means at the upper and lower edges of said flanges adapted to connect with or interlock with other such printers devices.

3. A printers device of the class described, comprising a plate provided with a pocket to receive a page of type, and also having means for protecting the type faces or engravings, said plate being provided with projecting means at opposite edge portions of both surfaces, extending away from each other, and engaging connections on one of said projecting means.

4. The combination of two or more interlocking or nested devices for piling and separating pages of type, each comprising a plate provided with an open-side pocket to receive a page of type, the upper plate or plates having means for protecting the type faces or engravings of the pages of type beneath.

5. The combination of two or more freely detachable devices for piling and separating pages of type, each comprising a plate having side flanges to form an open-side pocket for receiving a page of type, and the flanges being constructed to interlock or be connected with other plates.

6. The combination of two or more devices for piling and separating pages of type, each comprising a plate havlng side flanges to form a pocket for receiving a page of type, and the flanges being constructed to interlock or be connected with other plates, and each plate having a soft facing attached to the bottom for protecting the type faces or engravings by contact.

7 A printers device of the class described, comprising a flat plate, longitudinal corrugations or ribs on one side of said plate near its opposite edges, flanges extending directly oppositely away from said ribs on the other side of said plate, and seats formed at the free edges of said flanges and spaced the same distance apart as said corrugations or ribs.

8. A printers device of the class described, comprising a flat plate, longitudinal corrugations or ribs on one side of said plate near its opposite edges, flanges extending away from said ribs on the other side of said plate, seats formed at the free edges of said flanges, and a soft facing on one surface of said plate for protecting the type faces and engravings by contact.

9. The combination of a plurality of plates adapted to receive a printing surface between them, provided at each of two opposite edge portions with engaging means presented both upwardly and downwardly from the surfaces of said plates, whereby one plate may be seated and engaged by said means with the other plate; said plates being spaced apart a sufiicient distance to avoid said plate extending away from each other, contact of the lower surface of the upper and engaging connection on one of said pr0- plate with the face of the print ng surface ecting means.

located thereunder. HARRY H. HANCOCK.

10. A printers device of the character de WVitnesses:

scribed comprising a plate, projecting means J OHN H. PARKE,

at opposite edge portions of both surfaces of EVA G. NASH.

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